SMS

See also sms

English

Wikipedia

Initialism

SMS

1. Short Message Service, a service for sending text messages on a cellular telephone system.
2. (video games) Sega Master System.
3. (numismatics) special mint set
4. (psychology) short man syndrome
5. (military, nautical) SMS — Seiner Majestät Schiff – literally, "His Majesty's Ship" in German

Noun

SMS (plural SMSes)

1. A text message sent on a cell phone.

Translations

a text message sent on a cell phone

• Afrikaans: SMS (af)
• Arabic: رسالة (ar) (risaala) f, رسالة إس إم إس (ar) (risaalat 'es 'em 'es) f, إس إم إس (ar) ('es 'em 'es) m, (colloquial) ميسيج (ar) (miisij) m

  Morocco: ميساج (mīsāž)

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 短信 (cmn) (duǎnxìn), SMS (cmn) (es-em-es)

• Finnish: tekstiviesti (fi)
• French: SMS (fr) m, texto (fr) m
• German: SMS (de) f and n, SMS-Nachricht (de) f, Textnachricht (de) f

• Hebrew: סמס (he)
• Japanese: 伝言 (ja) (でんごん, dengon), エス・エム・エス (ja) (esu-emu-esu), ＳＭＳ (ja) (esu-emu-esu)
• Polish: SMS (pl) m, esemes (pl) m
• Portuguese: mensagem de texto (pt), SMS (pt)
• Russian: SMS (ru) (SMS) m, эс-эм-эс (ru) (es-em-és) m, (colloquial) эсэмэска (ru) (eseméska) f, сообщение (ru) (soobščénije) n, (slang) месседж (ru) (méssedž) m , СМС (ru) (SMS) m
• Turkish: SMS (tr), mesaj (tr), kısa mesaj (tr)

Verb

SMS (third-person singular simple present SMSes, present participle SMSing, simple past and past participle SMSed)

1. To send a message on a cell phone.

   I SMSed him and asked why he is late.

   I can't talk to her: she is too busy SMSing her friends.

Synonyms

• text

Translations

to send a message on a cell phone

• Afrikaans: SMS (af)
• Dutch: sms'en (nl)
• Finnish: lähettää tekstiviesti

• Hebrew: סימס (he) (simés)
• Polish: esemesować (pl)

See also

• Appendix:Glossary of textspeak

Anagrams

• MSS., Mss, Mss., SSM

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Dutch

Initialism

SMS

1. SMS

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French

Initialism

SMS

1. SMS

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German

Initialism

SMS

1. (nautical, military) SMS — Seiner Majestät Schiff, His Majesty's Ship

Usage notes

Used for naval ships of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Second Reich of Imperial Germany, for the Kaiserliche und Königliche Kriegsmarine and Kaiserliche Marine, respectively.

Noun

SMS f (genitive SMS, plural SMS) (Gender sometimes neuter)

1. SMS (text message)

Usage notes

This noun is neuter gender in Switzerland and Austria and feminine gender everywhere else.

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Japanese

Pronunciation

えす・えむ・えす (エス・エム・エス, esu-emu-esu)

Abbreviation

SMS (ＳＭＳ)

1. SMS

Alternative forms

• エス・エム・エス

Synonyms

• 伝言